He approached her, and she saw that his sclera were black as space. Here are a couple of descriptions of John’s eyes. She was an entire planet prior to being stuffed in a Barbie doll meat suit, why would she have something as meaty as eyes?Īnd if Alecto didn’t originally have those eyes, because she didn’t have eyes at all, then where did they come from? And those extraordinary black eyes you’ve always worn… they were always hers.”īut we now know, from Nt9, that Alecto didn’t originally have eyes. Alecto had your eyes from the moment any of us first saw her. “All that effort to break open the Locked Tomb,” said Augustine, “only to have the answer we wanted wander up in the form of one dead teenager flaunting your genes. So where do the black eyes with white rings come from? Augustine says in Ht9 that the black eyes were Alecto’s, originally. Gold eyes, compared to an egg - did Alecto want to see rebirth from John? She gave him those eyes, and he, in turn, gave them back to her. She loved John.įor she so loved the world that she had given them John. Nt9 implies that he got his abilities from Alecto, seen in chapter 32: John’s gold eyes appeared when he first developed his necromantic abilities. Is there anything to that egg description? Nona’s is pretty appropriate because she’s pretty hung up on that breakfast she had to eat, but Harrow’s description is a bit more unexpected. When she looked in the mirror she had skin the colour of the egg carton, and eyes the colour of the egg mixture, and hair the colour of the burnt-out bottom of the pan. NtN chapter 2, Nona regarding her appearance: He could not possibly know that in your youth her eyes had often been black, like yours were, but that ever since you had writhed in Lyctoral agony her eyes had turned a yellow that made you dizzy to behold: a bronzed, hot, animal yellow, as amber as the inside of an egg.

Ht9 chapter 2, Harrow regarding the Body: Some thoughts on John, Alecto, and eyes, spoilers for Nona the Ninth.

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